Winds of change at Lugogo
Nov 03, 2002
The winds of change have finally reached Lugogo with KCC Football Club fans demanding a stake in the club’s management
By James Bakama
The winds of change have finally reached Lugogo with KCC Football Club fans demanding a stake in the club’s management.
A section of the fans have even threatened to secede if the club’s executive does not change its autocratic style of management.
Top on the fans’ demands is stopping of what has come to be known as the “timu ya kitongole†ideology.
The phrase, coined by one of KCC’s first chairmen Jack Ibale, literally means that KCC is an institutional team.
Its deeper meaning is that the fans are secondary to the city council from which the club initially got the bulk of its finances.
KCC’s golden era was in the seventies and early eighties. But, over the past decade City Hall’s support has progressively dwindled as much as the team’s fortunes have declined.
The expected result should have been some loosening in City Hall’s grip to give more control to the fans, who today account for a substantial part of the club’s well being.
But in what is both a show of arrogance and stubbornness, KCC’s executive is clinging on to the club’s constitution that locks out non-KCC employees from the club’s top management.
This, despite indications that the only way out for the club is to have its management liberalised.
Firstly, it is an open secret that City Hall can no longer solely run the club. KCC’s leadership should also realise that the scope of those with a stake’ in the club goes far beyond the club’s registered fans.
The club’s current structure, which can afford to have an executive illegally in office for over a year, could no doubt do with better administrative brains through open competition.
The idea of KCC being a close knit “family†of former players and City Hall employees only therefore needs re-examining. It is a puzzle that might seem complex, but it can be demystified.
What the executive should realise is that it has changed players and coaches in multitudes but standards have continued plunging.
The only thing that has not changed is the administrative structure. So, why shouldn’t we believe that therein lies the problem?
The winds of change have finally reached Lugogo with KCC Football Club fans demanding a stake in the club’s management.
A section of the fans have even threatened to secede if the club’s executive does not change its autocratic style of management.
Top on the fans’ demands is stopping of what has come to be known as the “timu ya kitongole†ideology.
The phrase, coined by one of KCC’s first chairmen Jack Ibale, literally means that KCC is an institutional team.
Its deeper meaning is that the fans are secondary to the city council from which the club initially got the bulk of its finances.
KCC’s golden era was in the seventies and early eighties. But, over the past decade City Hall’s support has progressively dwindled as much as the team’s fortunes have declined.
The expected result should have been some loosening in City Hall’s grip to give more control to the fans, who today account for a substantial part of the club’s well being.
But in what is both a show of arrogance and stubbornness, KCC’s executive is clinging on to the club’s constitution that locks out non-KCC employees from the club’s top management.
This, despite indications that the only way out for the club is to have its management liberalised.
Firstly, it is an open secret that City Hall can no longer solely run the club. KCC’s leadership should also realise that the scope of those with a stake’ in the club goes far beyond the club’s registered fans.
The club’s current structure, which can afford to have an executive illegally in office for over a year, could no doubt do with better administrative brains through open competition.
The idea of KCC being a close knit “family†of former players and City Hall employees only therefore needs re-examining. It is a puzzle that might seem complex, but it can be demystified.
What the executive should realise is that it has changed players and coaches in multitudes but standards have continued plunging.
The only thing that has not changed is the administrative structure. So, why shouldn’t we believe that therein lies the problem?